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New marine vegetation implementation strategy outlines 11 top research needs for kelp and eelgrass
Summary
The Habitat Strategic Initiative Lead team presented a new marine vegetation implementation strategy that prioritizes long-term status-and-trends monitoring, stressor-response studies, ecosystem-services valuation and restoration-effectiveness research; the panel discussed tribal and community-science integration and next steps for funding targeted research.
The Habitat Strategic Initiative Lead team presented a finalized implementation strategy for Puget Sound marine vegetation and asked the science panel to help identify how to advance the strategy's research priorities.
Brie Turner (marine vegetation implementation strategy lead) summarized long-term monitoring that shows site-level variability and some sustained declines in eelgrass and floating kelp at local scales. "We have 59 research needs that we winnowed and prioritized into a top 11," Turner said, describing a voting process and an…
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